Guest Blog by Melissa McCreery A week ago, I wrote a post [Education by the Numbers] highlighting some (slightly alarming) statistics about higher education in America. Through those numbers we saw an education system with some serious issues to address. Issues that Kilns College is tackling head on. While student loan debt is hovering frighteningly […]
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A good friend once sent me this quote from J.I. Packer on Worship: “If worship services are so fixed that what’s being offered fits the expectations, the hopes, even the prejudices, of any one of these groups as opposed to the others, I don’t believe the worship style glorifies God.” I really like it. It’s
Here’s another thoughtful and honest review of Pursuing Justice from Pastor Glen Woods. ****************** Jesus said, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). Pursuing Justice: the call to live and die for bigger things by Ken Wytsma with D.R. Jacobsen agitates
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Guest Blog By Ben Larson. This post is the third in a series on Church and Social Media. Click here to start from the beginning. Okay, you’ve got a grasp on the Big Picture of social media and your strategy is in place…now what? Here are some basics of social media management that I’ve picked
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Guest Blogger: Melissa McCreery When I began my typical social media ritual this past Monday morning, I found my Facebook and Twitter feeds overflowing with some of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most popular quotes, in observation of the MLK holiday. “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of
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Guest Blog by Ben Larson. Now that we’ve talked about why churches need to have a social media presence, here’s my list of things you can do to begin building your own social media strategy. It’s by no means comprehensive, and my first recommendation is actually to go and find more material to read. This
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By Guest Blogger: Melissa McCreery I recently read an article about the decline of Liberal Arts colleges in America. It appears that administrators at many liberal arts schools may be bailing on their mission statement—to provide a classical approach to education that teaches students to question, analyze, and think critically—in favor of adding vocational and professional
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I once asked a friend what a spiritual topic was she said, “Greed.” Wasn’t what I would have thought of… I might, however, have said something like selfishness or consumerism. We all use different words, but at bottom we all deal with the same spiritual issues. One of the things I believe liberals underestimated and
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